In the province of Ontario, when a person turns 16, they gain the right take a G1 driver’s test, move away from home, and get married.

When the daughter of a billionaire condo developer turns 16, those entitlements include a private concert and slow dance with Justin Bieber.

That’s what Erica Shnaider learned on Saturday night, when the Canadian teen heartthrob dropped in on her lavish sixteenth birthday party at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Shnaider, whose father is Alex Shnaider — the 43rd richest Canadian with a net worth of $1.5 billion, according to Canadian Business magazine — tweeted ecstatically about her brush with the Bieb.

“Most unreal night of my life,” she wrote. “I don’t even know what to say.”

The pop heartthrob from Stratford, Ont. arrived midway through the bash to swoons from the crowd of mostly teenage girls, said Tyler Armes of Down With Webster, a Juno-nominated Toronto band who also performed. Bieber, 19, did a rendition of an unreleased single, then danced “provocatively” with the birthday girl, Armes said.

The singer’s appearance was short-lived, lasting about three minutes: “He’s got 30 Rambo Secret Service guys around him. They cleared the place like there could be a potential bomb threat, then he’s walked into a black SUV.”

On August 17, Canadian rapper Drake attended the sixteenth birthday of reality TV star Kylie Jenner, planting a kiss on the girl’s cheek. In 2005, a New York defence contractor hired 50 Cent, Aerosmith, and Tom Petty to perform at his daughter’s bat mitzvah.

Shnaider’s fete seems to have been similarly decadent. Armes described a copious buffet of “sushi, Italian, a bunch of different kinds of macaroni and cheese, a thousand different kinds of popcorns.”

“You name it, they had it. It was like being at Canada’s Wonderland.”

The party also featured a station where guests could design their own T-shirts by firing fake spray paint cans — complete with simulated hissing sounds — at a digital screen, which then printed the sartorial creations, Armes said.

The crowd reflected the overlapping social circles of a real estate mogul and his young daughter.

Armes described the attendees as “a bunch of corporate titans, and screaming fifteen-year-old girls.”

“It was the wackiest party of all time,” he added.

But the madness centred on Bieber, whose fan base — known as Beliebers — has become legendary for its devotion and fervour.

Armes said teenage girls shoved each other aside to get closer to their idol. More mature women weren’t immune to his charms, either: “There were some cougar moms in the crowd who looked like they had hungry eyes for him.”

“People go nuts. The star power that that kid has is on a whole different level. As soon as they call his name and he goes up on stage people start acting irrationally.”

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